About Washington Heights

Real Estate Prices and Overview

Washington Heights median real estate price is $99,380, which is more expensive than 35.3% of the neighborhoods in
South Carolina and 20.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Washington Heights
is currently $331, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.
Rents here are currently lower in price than 96.2% of South Carolina
neighborhoods.

Washington Heights is a suburban neighborhood (based on population
density) located in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Washington Heights real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom)
small apartment buildings and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate
is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Washington Heights neighborhood
are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in
Washington Heights. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 21.7%.
This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 87.4% of
all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here
is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods
dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied.
But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that
can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you
may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from
its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This
neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as
revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything
from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people
get around.

Notable & Unique: People

One of the unique characteristics of the Washington Heights
neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of
residents here is lower than that found in 99.8% of the neighborhoods
in America.
The Washington Heights neighborhood also has a greater percentage
of children living in poverty (86.3%) than found in
99.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty
is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this
neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

In addition, single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the
Washington Heights neighborhood about it; they already know. 35.2%
of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a
higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8%
of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong
statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single
parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime,
neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births
and rates of infant mortality.

Also, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 97.6%
of the adult residents in the Washington Heights neighborhood do
not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated
adults than found in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Notable & Unique: Occupations

There are more people living in the Washington Heights neighborhood
employed as sales and service workers (42.3%) than almost any neighborhood
in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts,
sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national
employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this
neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people
living here who work in such occupations.

Notable & Unique: Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or
three. But households in the Washington Heights neighborhood buck
this trend.
41.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at
all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in
98.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Notable & Unique: Modes of Transportation

In the Washington Heights neighborhood, walking to work is a real
option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals
walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 16.2%
of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than
we found in 96.8% of American neighborhoods. Get ready
to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

Also, more people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work
than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Notable & Unique: Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other
neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live
near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities
of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that
neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting
things about the rootedness of people in the Washington Heights
neighborhood.
In the Washington Heights neighborhood, a greater proportion of
the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is
found in 95.1% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood,
more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

Notable & Unique: Real Estate

In addition, three-deckers, duplexes, old Victorian homes cut up into apartments. Independent stores on the corner selling pizza. These are some of the hallmarks of neighborhoods with lots of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. The Washington Heights neighborhood really stands out in this regard, however, as it is dominated by such small apartment buildings more than nearly any other neighborhood in America. This is a stunning visual and lifestyle example of this type of neighborhood. In fact, 57.4% of the real estate here are small 2, 3, or 4 unit apartment buildings, which is a higher proportion than found in 98.8% of America's neighborhoods.

Furthermore, 85.5% of the real estate in the Washington Heights neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.

The Neighbors

The Neighbors: Income

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low
income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a
neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children,
who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities,
the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty,
which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals
both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Spartanburg are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America.
NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower
than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
With 86.3% of the children here below the federal poverty
line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.6%
of U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors: Occupations

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you
are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have
shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations
shape the culture of a place.

In the Washington Heights neighborhood, 57.7% of the working population is employed in
sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is
manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed.
Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations
(15.9%).

The Neighbors: Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents,
our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior - comes
from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting
and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or
more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives
each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same
city can have drastically different cultures.

In the Washington Heights neighborhood in Spartanburg, SC, residents
most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (2.6%).
There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African
ancestry (2.4%), and residents who report African roots
(2.4%), and some of the residents are also of Cuban
ancestry (1.2%).

The Neighbors: Languages

The most common language spoken in the Washington Heights
neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your
place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in
just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a
long and arduous commute.
The greatest number of commuters in Washington Heights neighborhood spend
between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (66.3% of working
residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (49.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work.
In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (18.1%) and 16.4% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning
a car useful for getting to work.

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